Cifs-utils — Cyber Threats, Attacks & Incidents

Related Threat Clusters

• Critical Vulnerability in cifs-utils Allows Local Code Execution in Ubuntu

  A significant vulnerability has been identified in the cifs-utils package affecting multiple Ubuntu versions. The flaw allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges due to improper handling of…

  5 articles · Updated July 2, 2026
• CIFSwitch Vulnerability in Linux Allows Root Access via CIFS Exploit

  A local privilege escalation vulnerability named 'CIFSwitch' has been discovered in the Linux kernel, enabling low-privileged users to gain root access. This flaw affects multiple Linux distributions that use vulnerable…

  5 articles · Updated May 30, 2026
• Rocky Linux cifs-utils Vulnerability Allows Local Privilege Escalation

  An important update has been released for cifs-utils affecting Rocky Linux 10, addressing a local privilege escalation vulnerability. The vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base…

  4 articles · Updated July 5, 2026

Recent Intelligence Reports

• Rocky Linux 10 cifs-utils Important Local Escalation Vuln RLSA-2026 — Linuxsecurity · July 5, 2026
• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cifs-utils Important Local Code Execution Vulnern 8496 — Linuxsecurity · July 2, 2026
• Cifswitch — heyitsas.im · May 30, 2026
• New Linux CIFSwitch Kernel Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access — Cybersecuritynews · May 28, 2026

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